Class Notes Category: Career
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Viktorya Saroyan ’20
Viktorya Saroyan ’20 has joined Helsell Fetterman, a Seattle-based law firm serving businesses, organizations and individuals. She will be working in the firm’s commercial litigation practice group. Saroyan graduated summa cum laude from the UCLA, earning her bachelor’s degree in sociology. She then earned her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in…
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Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88
The last book of a nine-volume series by Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88 on the assessment of organizational diversity has been released by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The nine books are: Assessing organizational diversity with the Simpson index; Assessing organizational diversity with the Shannon index; Assessing organizational diversity with the Heip index; Assessing organizational diversity with the…
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Grace Gelone ’21
Grace Gelone ’21 has joined Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin as a member of the firm’s Trusts and Estates department. She assists clients with the preparation of wills, trusts, directives and powers of attorneys. Her goal is to make sure her client’s intentions and goals are fully met in ways that reduce tax liability…
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Lauren Tresp ’09
Lauren Tresp ’09, founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Southwest Contemporary, an award-winning contemporary arts publication reaching more than 280,000 readers per year, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the venture. Headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 2019, Southwest Contemporary publishes arts journalism and critical perspectives on contemporary arts and culture throughout the American West…
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Jason Tanamor, Cert. ’24
A new young adult Filipino superhero novel, “The Legend of Sensei Tsinelas” by Filipino-American author Jason Tanamor, will be released on May 13, 2025, during Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. A synopsis of the book: Between a tsinelas-wielding superhero, a major social studies project, and take-out boxes of adobo and lumpia,…
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Alberto Retana ’09
Community Coalition, led by CEO & President Alberto Retana ’09, is celebrating the launch of “Alta / A Human Atlas of a City of Angels” at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In partnership with Getty for PST ART, Alta preserves the untold stories of 100 remarkable individuals making a positive change in L.A. County.…
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Mindy C. Hsu ’08
Mindy C. Hsu ’08 has been added to Goldberg Segalla’s Workers’ Compensation practice group in Orange County, California. For more than 10 years, Hsu has focused her practice on workers’ compensation matters throughout southern California, primarily representing employers, insurance carriers and third-party administrators. She handles every aspect of the claims process, from developing case work-ups…
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Jessica S. High ’08
Jessica S. High ’08 has been promoted to special counsel at Duane Morris LLP.High counsels private sector colleges and universities in their many specialized relationships, including matters of state and federal regulation, accreditation compliance and advocacy, and student and employee disputes and concerns. Before becoming an attorney, she spent over a decade employed by private…
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Kathleen Sheldon, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’88
The Mackerel Years: A Memoir of War, Hunger, and Women’s History in 1980s Mozambique,” the most recent book by Kathleen Sheldon, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’88, was published in September. “In the early 1980s,” Sheldon said, “I traveled to Mozambique to pursue research for my doctoral dissertation in history at UCLA, accompanied by my physician husband…
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Gabrielle Gordon ’12
Gabrielle Gordon ’12 has joined Ogletree Deakins’ Los Angeles office as of counsel. Gordon’s practice focuses on the defense of employers against claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, wage and hour violations, wrongful termination and breach of contract claims. Gordon defends both single plaintiff and class or collective…